Gift shop searches for more local artwork
03.08.10
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The Arcade Fire, a thriving throwback
03.08.10
QUEBEC Metropolis — One July morning, the seven members of the Arcade Fire and a handful of their employees were assembled on the patio of the select Hotel le Germain-Dominion here, awaiting their tour bus amid haphazardly piled impedimenta and instrument cases. When Chantal Vaillancourt, a band assistant who has worked for the Arcade Fire since 2006, arrived to league with them, they burst into “Happy Birthday” while she grinned and blushed. The to-do started out as cheerfully ragged as any gathering of a dozen friends might sound. But not for covet: by the last line it had become a ringing, full-fledged chorale, in hymnlike four-part harmony. These friends are, above all, musicians.